[Sca-cooks] medieval dog recipes

[RON CARNEGIE]

Drakes men ate Penguins, well within our period while circumnavigatring the 
globe.  They were not in Antartica, they were on South America.  You have to 
get around the cape to do that and that is pretty far down the Southern 
Hemisphere.  It was actually on an island in the vicinity of the cape.

A quick perusal of the Account of Frobisher's Second Voyage does support 
Bear's comments.  Frobisher's party found items which were described to them 
by a captive eskimo.  This included a sled.  The writer oges on to describe 
how the Eskimoux use dogs to drice sleds the way Englishment use horses and 
that they keep them in there houses to fatten for meat as we do cattle.



Ranald De Balinhard


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] medieval dog recipes


>
>> Capt. Elias answered my question with:
>>  >>>
>> I believe that in the voyages of Martin Frobisher to find the
>> NorthWest Passage, they cooked Eskimo dogs and noted various
>> anatomical differences between them and European dogs...
>> <<<
>>
>> When was this? Was this before 1600 CE?
>>
>> I agree on the tastes of sailors. I think there are other reports of 
>> them eating penquins and the like. This probably lies in the outlying 
>> region of things eaten during sieges or famines. But while not  something 
>> which would be served to Lords and Ladies, much less  Royalty, probably 
>> worth our study.
>>
>> Stefan
>
> I believe Capt. Elias is referring to Frobisher's comments on the natives 
> eating their sled dogs in times of etreme privation from the report of 
> Frobisher's second voyage to find the Northwest Passage (1577).
>
> While sailors may have eaten penguins, any such reports are probably after 
> 1600 as exploration of the far Southern Hemishere really gets moving in 
> the 18th Century.
>
> Bear
>
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